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String Games
The book is all about string games for beginners. You might have to use your teeth a bit for some of them... There is a great one at the end from the Navaho Indians which shows you how to do the breast-bone and ribs, and it’s absolutely marvellous.
String games may be regarded as a pastime pure and simple, and quite apart from their intrinsic fascination they provide a valuable exercise for fingers, memory and imagination. In this aspect they should appeal both to children and to teachers, and in particular they may be commended to Scouts and Girl Guides.
All you would have to do is give it to any child and let them get on with it. It’s exactly the thing for any parent with a car-sick child, with and child who’s got mumps, measles, chickenpox or anything else.
Beyond this, any folklorist knows that traditional games reflect not a little of the history and social habits of a people, and string figures, which do this in a rather unusual way, offer a novel approach to studies and interests of this sort. In this aspect they may well appeal to more mature readers.
But whether for older or for younger learners, as a pastime or as an introduction to wider study, these games-so ancient and yet so fresh-have already proved, and are capable of still further proving, their usefulness. Invalids or those in any way debarred from active life may find in them a new interest and they have been known to relieve the tedium of long journeys by train or by boat. We call to mind "string bands" formed on board ship which have wiped away many hours in the learning of new figures and the exchange of old ones.
The book offers some selected examples of string games aim at awakening interest in a subject which has much to offer to persons of very different ages and tastes and for this reason scientific terminology and the more complicated figures have been avoided.
This is enough, perhaps, to indicate the scope and possibilities of the book: for the rest the reader must try the figures and judge for him or herself.
String games may be regarded as a pastime pure and simple, and quite apart from their intrinsic fascination they provide a valuable exercise for fingers, memory and imagination. In this aspect they should appeal both to children and to teachers, and in particular they may be commended to Scouts and Girl Guides.
All you would have to do is give it to any child and let them get on with it. It’s exactly the thing for any parent with a car-sick child, with and child who’s got mumps, measles, chickenpox or anything else.
Beyond this, any folklorist knows that traditional games reflect not a little of the history and social habits of a people, and string figures, which do this in a rather unusual way, offer a novel approach to studies and interests of this sort. In this aspect they may well appeal to more mature readers.
But whether for older or for younger learners, as a pastime or as an introduction to wider study, these games-so ancient and yet so fresh-have already proved, and are capable of still further proving, their usefulness. Invalids or those in any way debarred from active life may find in them a new interest and they have been known to relieve the tedium of long journeys by train or by boat. We call to mind "string bands" formed on board ship which have wiped away many hours in the learning of new figures and the exchange of old ones.
The book offers some selected examples of string games aim at awakening interest in a subject which has much to offer to persons of very different ages and tastes and for this reason scientific terminology and the more complicated figures have been avoided.
This is enough, perhaps, to indicate the scope and possibilities of the book: for the rest the reader must try the figures and judge for him or herself.
44 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 13, 2014
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